Disability benefit cuts: a disaster waiting to happen
The case of Sue Marsh, whose application for Disability Living Allowance was rejected despite having a debilitating disease, has highlighted the dangers of the Coalition's welfare reforms
Combining the Paralympics and Olympics would be a disaster. Here’s why …
Peter White: Faced with the choice of the finish of the Olympic marathon or the goalball event for blind athletes, where will sports editors send their reporters?
Dolphin therapy is a scam
Dea Birkett: The film Dolphin Tale perpetuates a myth that swimming with dolphins will 'restore' disabled people such as my daughter
Yoga won’t help me walk again. But it has allowed me to ‘feel’ my legs for the first time in years
The mention of this ancient exercise system may conjure images incense-filled rooms, but its principles can offer practical benefits to the disabled
Incapacity benefit was a lifeline after my accident – would I be so lucky now?
Tim Rushby-Smith: The cuts get personal: Welfare helped me rebuild my future after a spinal cord injury
These work capability assessments are a farce
Sue Marsh: So, politicians designed an incapacity benefits system in which virtually nobody qualifies for help. How can that be justified?
Social care report threatens to leave people vulnerable
There's big money to be made for private equity and venture capital companies and insurers under Dilnot's plans, says Ray Jones; but where will it leave vulnerable people?
Taking care
What is it like to be a carer? And when another adult has to wash you, put you to bed or even take you to the toilet, how does it affect you? In National Carers Week, five people and their carers share their experiences
How wheelchair skills can give you independence
Life in a wheelchair isn't as limiting as you'd expect, once you've learned the moves
Shock tactics: Treatment or torture?
Ed Pilkington visits the Boston school that uses electric shock as a treatment for children and adults with severe autism or emotional problems